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jack lew must never be treasury secretary. his testimony before the senate budget committee less than two years ago was so outrageous and false that it alone disqualifies. jack lew is not that man. >> well, i guess if jeff sessions represented the majority party, his words there might have a little more bite than they do. jack lew actually in truth is the least controversial of the nominees we're going to talk about tonight. he is very liberal. no question about that. he has come up through the ranks starting in tip o'neil's office in years ago on the democratic side of the party. capable. knows the numbers. has the president's trust. even though he has offended some republicans by his behavior in the negotiations, president likes him. they won't go to the matt over this. >> bret: chuck hagel, charles? >> here from the two leading hagel indicators. schumer on the democrats and mccain on the republican. he is from new york. unequivocal. if he goes with hagel in the end, hagel will be approved. as for mccain, his issue is more i
jack lew must never be treasury secretary. his testimony before the senate budget committee less than two years ago was so outrageous and false that it alone disqualifies. jack lew is not that man. >> well, i guess if jeff sessions represented the majority party, his words there might have a little more bite than they do. jack lew actually in truth is the least controversial of the nominees we're going to talk about tonight. he is very liberal. no question about that. he has come up...
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i have the greatest respect for jack lew. i know he is main of exceptional judgment, calm under pressure with an extraordinary record of accomplishment and experience. over decades spent at the center of american economic policy. he is committed to defending the safety net for the elderly and the poor. he understands what it takes to create the conditions for stronger economic growth and broader economic opportunity. he understands that to govern responsibly is to govern with a recognition that we have limited fiscal resources. like jack, have i spent my professional life in this world of public policy and public service, and as all of you know, our families carry a large share of the burdens we assume in public life. i feel incredibly fortunate that my wife, carol, and my family have been willing to allow me to do this. i thank them for their support and their patience and i understand their occasional impatience. [ laughter ] >> i want to express my admiration and my appreciation for the women and the men of the treasury de
i have the greatest respect for jack lew. i know he is main of exceptional judgment, calm under pressure with an extraordinary record of accomplishment and experience. over decades spent at the center of american economic policy. he is committed to defending the safety net for the elderly and the poor. he understands what it takes to create the conditions for stronger economic growth and broader economic opportunity. he understands that to govern responsibly is to govern with a recognition that...
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lew shot it down and the president much more than open than jack lew to some of those changes so i think republicans think that this is a step in the wrong direction for them. but listen. there's definitely always concern from progressives. i think that's natural. and this administration has broadly been open in words, maybe not in deeds, republicans would say, to changes to social security, medicare and medicaid. so i guess he falls in line. he has been resistant according to people involved in the negotiations to major overhauls to the entitlement system. >> you mentioned that republicans don't like negotiating with him. with is that because he's really good at it? is it because he's hard to work with? i mean, is this a good choice for the president because he's hard nosed and a good negotiator or is it going to put a bad taste in republicans' mouths? >> what the complaint always is about jack lew is he can never get to yes. and maybe that means he's a good negotiator for the president because the president might not have wanted to get to yes and not the guy to deliver that but that's
lew shot it down and the president much more than open than jack lew to some of those changes so i think republicans think that this is a step in the wrong direction for them. but listen. there's definitely always concern from progressives. i think that's natural. and this administration has broadly been open in words, maybe not in deeds, republicans would say, to changes to social security, medicare and medicaid. so i guess he falls in line. he has been resistant according to people involved...
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i have the greatest respect for jack lew. i know him as a man exceptional judgment, calm under pressure, with an extraordinary record of experience over decades spent at the center of american economic policy. he is committed to defending the safety net for the elderly and poor. he understands what it takes to create the conditions for stronger economic growth and broader economic opportunity. and he understands that to govern responsibly, is to govern with the recognition that we have limited fiscal resources. now like jack, i've spent my professional life in this world of public policy and public service, and as all of you know, our families carry a large share of the burdens we assume in public life. and i feel incredibly fortunate that my wife, carol, and my family, have been willing to allow me to do this. and i thank them for their support and their patience and i understand their occasional impatience. i want to express my admiration and my appreciation for the women and men of the treasury department. those who came t
i have the greatest respect for jack lew. i know him as a man exceptional judgment, calm under pressure, with an extraordinary record of experience over decades spent at the center of american economic policy. he is committed to defending the safety net for the elderly and poor. he understands what it takes to create the conditions for stronger economic growth and broader economic opportunity. and he understands that to govern responsibly, is to govern with the recognition that we have limited...
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lew, and he trust jack lew. if you look at all of these cabinet appointments that we've seen and some to come, it is about the president's comfort level in the second term. >> he was just re-elected, he's the president of the united states. he deserves to be comfortable. if you can hold on, we still haven't received that famous two-minute warning. we'll take a quick two-minute break and be right back. where is flo? anybody know where flo is? are you flo? yes. is this the thing you gave my husband? well, yeah, yes. the "name your price" tool. you tell us the price you want to pay, and we give you a range of options to choose from. careful, though -- that kind of power can go to your head. that explains a lot. yo, buddy! i got this. gimme one, gimme one, gimme one! the power of the "name your price" tool. only from progressive. >>> we waiting for the president of the united states to walk into the east room of the white house. we'll show you a picture now. he's going to nominate jack lew as white house chief of st
lew, and he trust jack lew. if you look at all of these cabinet appointments that we've seen and some to come, it is about the president's comfort level in the second term. >> he was just re-elected, he's the president of the united states. he deserves to be comfortable. if you can hold on, we still haven't received that famous two-minute warning. we'll take a quick two-minute break and be right back. where is flo? anybody know where flo is? are you flo? yes. is this the thing you gave my...
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president nominated jack lew as the treasury secretary. it has been met with vigorous opposition by some on capitol hill. we'll have report and analysis from brit hume. 14 died in boston and 18 in state of massachusetts as the nationwide flu outbreak continues. we have a live report. "special report" starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to new york and my colleagues with "the five." ♪ ♪ >> eric: welcome back. i've been asking the question is american culture in declin decline. first up, scott thompson, english teacher is accused of pulling the flag off the wall and stomping on it in front of students feoffment speech or is american culture in decline. bob, taking the flag off the wall, stomping on it in front of kids? >> bob: it's terrible. i think there are laws against defacing a flag. not sure that he is not in that territory. to do it in front of kids, i'm not sure what the point was. he said it's cloth. it's more than cloth. represents a lot of thing. >> kimberly: fire him. this is outrageous. i would be so angry i would literally pro
president nominated jack lew as the treasury secretary. it has been met with vigorous opposition by some on capitol hill. we'll have report and analysis from brit hume. 14 died in boston and 18 in state of massachusetts as the nationwide flu outbreak continues. we have a live report. "special report" starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to new york and my colleagues with "the five." ♪ ♪ >> eric: welcome back. i've been asking the question is american culture in declin...
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and jack lew is in the middle of it. because democratic economic policies have not been well received by republicans in congress, and because jack lew once irked mitch mcconnell, he is, we're supposed to believe, not going to get the top tier cabinet position. we scoff in your general direction. if those do not sound like reasons substantive enough to block a presidential cabinet nomination, that is because those are not reasons substantive enough to block a presidential cabinet nomination. at least historically speaking, those are not the kind of things that keep a person out of a top tier job like that. as "the new york times" calculated today, in the history of the u.s. senate, the senate has confirmed over 500 cabinet nominations. over 500. it has denied nine out of more than 500 in gnat senate history. the last time a cabinet nomination was denied was almost 25 years ago when the senate voted down poppy bush's nominee for defense john tower after what would later be described in his obituary of public allegations of
and jack lew is in the middle of it. because democratic economic policies have not been well received by republicans in congress, and because jack lew once irked mitch mcconnell, he is, we're supposed to believe, not going to get the top tier cabinet position. we scoff in your general direction. if those do not sound like reasons substantive enough to block a presidential cabinet nomination, that is because those are not reasons substantive enough to block a presidential cabinet nomination. at...
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those were the years that jack lew was in charge of the budget. those were also the years in which debt clocks had to be unplugged because they had never been programmed to run backwards. it was not jack lew alone who led us to that fiscal breakthrough as a country. but he was budget director, and with success comes bragging rights. and even know the obama administration kind of declared war on peacocks in this announcement yesterday, it is worth wondering if they might not actually be better off if they did strut on these issues a little bit more than they like to, because you would never know it from the way the deficit peacocks are crowing against this administration, but the deficit is now more than $200 billion smaller than it was when president obama first took office. we are currently witnessing the fastest deficit reduction in this country since the end of world war ii. the alleged big spending liberal barack obama has already signed into law approximately $2.4 trillion deficit reduction measures over the next decade. and that could be hig
those were the years that jack lew was in charge of the budget. those were also the years in which debt clocks had to be unplugged because they had never been programmed to run backwards. it was not jack lew alone who led us to that fiscal breakthrough as a country. but he was budget director, and with success comes bragging rights. and even know the obama administration kind of declared war on peacocks in this announcement yesterday, it is worth wondering if they might not actually be better...
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>> steve, you were right on the money with the jack lew prediction. you and i had this conversation, but i just wonder, you know, there's this antagonistic relationship between the white house and business. >> right. >> there were a handful of business guys in the mix that wanted the job. larry fink. would it be sort of better as a perception from the market or perception of business to put a business guy in there to help the relationship, help the togetherness of business in washington so we actually get some job creation going? what's your take on this choice? >> i don't disagree with the signal that could have been sent had somebody else been chosen. >> exactly. >> no doubt about that. it could have been an olive branch to the business community. i think that's for sure, and president obama did have several candidates who he could have chosen from in that regard. >> right. >> so i think that's very important, but i think right now president obama says, you know what? i've got a problem with congress. i've got a problem with the debt ceiling. let me
>> steve, you were right on the money with the jack lew prediction. you and i had this conversation, but i just wonder, you know, there's this antagonistic relationship between the white house and business. >> right. >> there were a handful of business guys in the mix that wanted the job. larry fink. would it be sort of better as a perception from the market or perception of business to put a business guy in there to help the relationship, help the togetherness of business in...
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well, for heaven sakes, jack lew was on wall street for a year. he ran the alternative investments at citibank and he got $1 million bonus to that and $1 million cash compensation on top of that. i don't begrudge him that. i'm a free market guy. but his boss begrudges people who made money and lew did that in one year. if you live by the sword, you die by the sword. >> well, again, he is in sync with his boss, president obama, and i think obama's willing to overlook those transgressions as long as you see the world the way he does. and in terms of governor dean, i almost think i'm re-hearing herbert hoover about the need to fight the deficit by raising taxes. raising taxes -- >> and cutting spending. >> raising taxes is not the way to go. and you look at europe, they're raising taxes, japan is raising taxes and the result is a disaster. as you know, if we had normal growth economy, say 4%, which shouldn't be hard to do after what we've been through, you'd get an extra $400 billion, $500 billion right off the bat, instant, painless. >> howard, what
well, for heaven sakes, jack lew was on wall street for a year. he ran the alternative investments at citibank and he got $1 million bonus to that and $1 million cash compensation on top of that. i don't begrudge him that. i'm a free market guy. but his boss begrudges people who made money and lew did that in one year. if you live by the sword, you die by the sword. >> well, again, he is in sync with his boss, president obama, and i think obama's willing to overlook those transgressions...
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i don't think jack lew brings that to the table. whether or not the other attributes he has make up for that we'll have to wait and see. >> i was going to ask you if you didn't end your report with that, i was going to ask you to say what you just said, what you said to me off camera -- and i'll tell you, when you said it, i'll tell you what struck me. sometimes i think you're implying that if the administration needs to sell something to maybe the private sector, it helps to say, you know, geithner's for it. or it helps to say paulson was for it. it helps to say robert reuben is for this. and in this case they won't necessarily be able to make that. but they don't -- see where i disagree with you, i don't think they care that they don't sell it. they don't need to sell it. >> i don't care if they care. they should care. it does matter. we are entering really interesting times when it comes to a need to rethink our corporate tax system, rethink our individual tax system. rethink entitlements. all of these things. it would have been,
i don't think jack lew brings that to the table. whether or not the other attributes he has make up for that we'll have to wait and see. >> i was going to ask you if you didn't end your report with that, i was going to ask you to say what you just said, what you said to me off camera -- and i'll tell you, when you said it, i'll tell you what struck me. sometimes i think you're implying that if the administration needs to sell something to maybe the private sector, it helps to say, you...
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jack lew officially nominated as treasury chief. lew is known for his role in the being acrimonious talks in 2011. what could it mean this time. >> tiffany disappoints again with weaker holiday sales. there was weakness in the americas, strength in asia. so how much of a read through to the rest of retail is this earnings report? >>> nokia shares soaring this morning after a bullish outlook for the first quarter. >>> and herbal life's big day to defend itself against bill ackman's damning allegations. we'll have the latest and the ceo join us later in the show. >>> well, today president obama is set to nominate white house chief of staff jack lew as his next treasury secretary. succeeding tim geithner. lew has been budget director in both the obama and clinton administrations. he will pray a major role of course in negotiations over the debt ceiling and potential spending cuts. the president will make his announcement at 1:30 eastern. it's an event in the east room at the white house. i have to say off the bat just because he's a fo
jack lew officially nominated as treasury chief. lew is known for his role in the being acrimonious talks in 2011. what could it mean this time. >> tiffany disappoints again with weaker holiday sales. there was weakness in the americas, strength in asia. so how much of a read through to the rest of retail is this earnings report? >>> nokia shares soaring this morning after a bullish outlook for the first quarter. >>> and herbal life's big day to defend itself against...
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jack lew came to d.c. in 1973, 40 years ago and has experience all over town at the office of management and budget, at the state department, in the private sector at citibank and new york university. a white house official passed this along they said throughout his career jack lew has proven a successful and effective advocate for middle class families who can build bipartisan consensus to implement proved policies. jeff sessions from alabama says he does not think jack lew's nomination will be successful. he is steamed that lew appeared before congress two years ago and testified that president obama's budget would not add to the national debt. sessions says and this is a quote. at this time of unprecedented slow growth, high unemployment and huge deficits we need a secretary of treasury that the american people, the congress, and the world will know is up to the task of getting america on the path to prosperity, not the path to decline. jack lew is not that man. if lew's nomination is successful his sig
jack lew came to d.c. in 1973, 40 years ago and has experience all over town at the office of management and budget, at the state department, in the private sector at citibank and new york university. a white house official passed this along they said throughout his career jack lew has proven a successful and effective advocate for middle class families who can build bipartisan consensus to implement proved policies. jeff sessions from alabama says he does not think jack lew's nomination will...
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confirmed as quickly as possible, saying that jack lew has his complete trust. as i mentioned, this may be a battle. it may be a bit of a battle because some top folks are raising objections to jack lew who made his fair share of enemies in his time of chief of staff and we'll see how that proceeds. dana perino is still here with us. now we have it, it's official, another white male appointed to the cabinet and we were talking about this during the break. is it -- are we in an uncomfortable place we look the at the top cabinet people saying, women or not? minorities or not? and judging them by that? is that, is that in and of itself sort of affront to women. when we deserve to be there in mass numbers, we'll be there in mass numbers. or a situation in the country where women are still moving up the the halls of power? we haven't been, you know, equal pay or close to it, and in circles of power and we look at law schools and med schools for that long. we're still trekking upward. >> yes, so a lot of, i think back to my great-grandmother, who wasn't allowed to vot
confirmed as quickly as possible, saying that jack lew has his complete trust. as i mentioned, this may be a battle. it may be a bit of a battle because some top folks are raising objections to jack lew who made his fair share of enemies in his time of chief of staff and we'll see how that proceeds. dana perino is still here with us. now we have it, it's official, another white male appointed to the cabinet and we were talking about this during the break. is it -- are we in an uncomfortable...
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jack lew understands budgets. the fact of the matter is, this is a guy that can speak the right language when the biggest crisis in washington right now is the fact that there's an absence of a budget. >> okay. so, ali, that's a great point. when i heard you talk about this before it was the one thing that you said that i kind of disagreed with. look, we have a fiscal crisis on our hands, we have a debt crisis. if you look at his performance in the last few years in terms of running the budget office and being the chief of staff for the president, the debt crisis has gotten much worse. i don't look at that reference and say, gee, this is a guy who is really going to fix the problem and i do think what we need in washington is he's been in washington in and out of government for 25 years and i guess my philosophy is, why not bring in some new faces, granted they are going to have the president's philosophy but maybe looking at new approaches to bringing this enormous debt down. >> steve, do you remember his record
jack lew understands budgets. the fact of the matter is, this is a guy that can speak the right language when the biggest crisis in washington right now is the fact that there's an absence of a budget. >> okay. so, ali, that's a great point. when i heard you talk about this before it was the one thing that you said that i kind of disagreed with. look, we have a fiscal crisis on our hands, we have a debt crisis. if you look at his performance in the last few years in terms of running the...
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speaking of jack lew, he may want to do something about his signature. right now it is a series of curly writing. his signature would be on every u.s. currency bill. tim geithner said he had to change his signature when he took the job just to make it legible. >>> we have new video this morning from the floor of the 2013 silicone valley and take a look at all the names in the auto industry. they are at the convention center in san jose. showing up on trucks, cross overs, i'll take one of each of those. at auto show starts at 10:00 and runs through -- at 10:00 this morning and runs through sunday. >> i'll take one for sal and one for me and you and steve. >>> if you want to get into your hot rod or whatever car you use, you need to give yourself some extra time in this commute. 680 southbound is going to be a little bit slow. there are no major problems if you are driving at the bay bridge toll plaza but seems a touch lighter than usual. and it's not all that bad on the bridge itself. traffic looks good, a little bit of wet roads and you might even encoun
speaking of jack lew, he may want to do something about his signature. right now it is a series of curly writing. his signature would be on every u.s. currency bill. tim geithner said he had to change his signature when he took the job just to make it legible. >>> we have new video this morning from the floor of the 2013 silicone valley and take a look at all the names in the auto industry. they are at the convention center in san jose. showing up on trucks, cross overs, i'll take one...
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jack lew is the likely nominee. if he picks lew it could set the stage for another contentious confirmation battle. is there any other kind these days, mike emanuel? it seems like everybody that is being picked with the sepgs of senator kerry looks like a tough battle on capitol hill tell us a little bit more about this. >> reporter: good afternoon to you, as you look the at recent nominations these people are all obama people and jack lew has served this president as director of the office of management and budget and white house chief of staff. we are told it is all but a done deal for jack lew to replace timothy geithner as treasury secretary. lew has become a favorite of the president because he has sharp knowledge of the federal budget and his style is no drama. his confirmation would likely be taking place during some bruising budget fight and as congress considers increasing the nation's credit card the debt limit from the podium the white house press secretary has avoided getting ahead of mr. obama. >> i hav
jack lew is the likely nominee. if he picks lew it could set the stage for another contentious confirmation battle. is there any other kind these days, mike emanuel? it seems like everybody that is being picked with the sepgs of senator kerry looks like a tough battle on capitol hill tell us a little bit more about this. >> reporter: good afternoon to you, as you look the at recent nominations these people are all obama people and jack lew has served this president as director of the...
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. >>> president obama today formally nominated his chief of staff, jack lew, to be the next treasury secretary. as the second-term churn gets under way now. though it looked for a time like the president might nominate susan rice to be his next secretary of state, when that didn't happen, this latest wave of nominees appear to have something in common. and as nbc's andrea mitchell reports tonight, people are noticing. >> reporter: it is the white house photo that could be called all the president's men. adviser valerie jarrett is there, we're told, hidden behind the guys. as president obama filled his top cabinet post with nominees named jack and chuck and john -- >> it's time for me to move on. >> reporter: -- it was like "mad men" goes to washington, except peggy leaving ruth marcus. >> whatever guy becomes chief of staff, i think it's actually interesting there are two women who are deputy chiefs of staff and no one has talked about them as possibilities at all. >> reporter: one of the two deputies, nancy ann de parcel, a harvard lawyer, is leaving next week. epa administrator, li
. >>> president obama today formally nominated his chief of staff, jack lew, to be the next treasury secretary. as the second-term churn gets under way now. though it looked for a time like the president might nominate susan rice to be his next secretary of state, when that didn't happen, this latest wave of nominees appear to have something in common. and as nbc's andrea mitchell reports tonight, people are noticing. >> reporter: it is the white house photo that could be called...
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now this is interesting, if jack lew becomes treasury secretary he may want to work on his signature. right now it is a series of curely writing and it will appear on every u.s. treasury bill. tim geithner said he had to change his signature when he got the job to make it legible. >>> they are getting new information about the first homicide victim of 2013. it was outside of a house on tripoli avenue early sunday morning. they now identify him as ivan. they heard a loud argument and then several gunshots and he was pronounced dead at the scene. they are still searching for suspects and there is no word of a possible motive. >>> they now say people who live in san francisco, sonoma and contra costa counties can also participate. organizers will offer $200 for semiautomatic weapons and will also collect violent video games and if there is money left over, they will buy it back. they are at police headquarters in novato, san rafael and largos and at the substation. >>> they want the new bay bridge to have a state-of-the- art security system. the suggestion of 175 cameras will cost 3 mill
now this is interesting, if jack lew becomes treasury secretary he may want to work on his signature. right now it is a series of curely writing and it will appear on every u.s. treasury bill. tim geithner said he had to change his signature when he got the job to make it legible. >>> they are getting new information about the first homicide victim of 2013. it was outside of a house on tripoli avenue early sunday morning. they now identify him as ivan. they heard a loud argument and...
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>> well, jack lew a favorite of president obama because he has serious knowledge of the federal budgets. he has a no drama style. he has been serving this president in a very high profile capacity since president obama took office as white house chief of staff and before that as the director of the office of management and budget. lew has served as director of those two big jobs. bottom line is we are told that he is well-trusted well regarded here at the white house, shep? >> probably not a household name everywhere but well known in washington, jack lew. >> no question about that certainly with those two high profile jobs here at the obama administration over the past four years has been engaged in some tough negotiations with lawmakers on capitol hill. this photo we are showing you is from new year's eve. is he on the right wearing glasses and a blue tie. and bottom line the top republican on the senate budget committee says while he offered this prediction about the confirmation battle. >> it is a bumpy confirmation process. i think the american people need to know that the secretar
>> well, jack lew a favorite of president obama because he has serious knowledge of the federal budgets. he has a no drama style. he has been serving this president in a very high profile capacity since president obama took office as white house chief of staff and before that as the director of the office of management and budget. lew has served as director of those two big jobs. bottom line is we are told that he is well-trusted well regarded here at the white house, shep? >>...
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in terms of whether jacks lew changes anything, you're right the president makes the policy. now, sometimes you can have a treasury secretary that can have an influence like if you have a robert ruben kind of person who had a heavy influence on bill clinton and got him to see how important reducing the deficit was. but obama seems to choose people who are just going to execute, not actually make policy. stuart: okay. dream on kirsten, dream on. i've got to break in for a second. news just in from the news conference for the f.a.a. secretary ray lahood has been holding. >> we believe this is a safe aircraft, talking about the 787 dreamliner, of course referring to the boeing dreamliner, saying look, it's safe. this is what the f.a.a. is saying at the news conference, announcing the review of the dreamliner and that's the conference held right now. boeing stock is down a buck and a half on that. now this: snow in jerusalem, lowest temperature there in decades. lowest temperature in china in three decades. however, the u.s. saw its warmest year on record last year and we've got
in terms of whether jacks lew changes anything, you're right the president makes the policy. now, sometimes you can have a treasury secretary that can have an influence like if you have a robert ruben kind of person who had a heavy influence on bill clinton and got him to see how important reducing the deficit was. but obama seems to choose people who are just going to execute, not actually make policy. stuart: okay. dream on kirsten, dream on. i've got to break in for a second. news just in...
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i think jack lew is going to be the same. what was interesting is the geithner treasury has not been especially public treasury, but the idea with jack lew, it will be even less public than that. >> good point. lew not a friend of the camera, as even the president suggested in that presser yesterday. >> exactly. >> thanks a lot, steve lies plan. >> planes, trains and automobiles, dow transports rising, hitting the third consecutive interday high. big names like goldman getting more bullish on the sector. is a run-up almost over? we're talking tranies a little later on. robert frank is coming to the post for the million-dollar minute. >> melissa, i've got the hottest new toy for billionaires. and why this toy made some big news this week. that's coming up on "squawk on [ male announcer ] how do you trade? with scottrader streaming quotes, any way you want. fully customize it for your trading process -- from thought to trade, on every screen. and all in real time. which makes it just like having your own trading floor, right at
i think jack lew is going to be the same. what was interesting is the geithner treasury has not been especially public treasury, but the idea with jack lew, it will be even less public than that. >> good point. lew not a friend of the camera, as even the president suggested in that presser yesterday. >> exactly. >> thanks a lot, steve lies plan. >> planes, trains and automobiles, dow transports rising, hitting the third consecutive interday high. big names like goldman...
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. >> there is jack lew signature. we could have a pretty ugly signature on our dollar bill. >> is it even a signature or did he start drawing charlie brown and give up after the hair? good grief! and it got no better when lew explained his fiscal policy quote i describe budget tapestry when it's hope dream of a nation. >> bret: thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that is it for "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. charles, i had more time. >> shepard: this is the fox report. tonight, the feds say the deadly flu epidemic -- outbreak is now an epidemic. widespread in all but three states and killing children. but there may be some good news. and it's supposed to be among the most advanced passenger jets in all the world. but for the dream liner, it's really more nightmare. they have had electrical problems, a cracked windshield, even a fire. >> every new commercial airplane has issues in the inner service. >> shepard: now the feds are investigating. still, the dozens of dream liners already in servi
. >> there is jack lew signature. we could have a pretty ugly signature on our dollar bill. >> is it even a signature or did he start drawing charlie brown and give up after the hair? good grief! and it got no better when lew explained his fiscal policy quote i describe budget tapestry when it's hope dream of a nation. >> bret: thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that is it for "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. charles, i had more time....
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our paper money could soon have a bunch of scwilgs on it if jack lew get the gig. puts the united states signature on all the green backs. that's the current secretary tim geithner's john hancock. here is lu's signature. see that? from a recent white house memo. it's a bunch of scwilgs skillings. geithner had to change his signature from the one you can see here so that people could read his name on the currency. after all, if you get to sign all the money, the least you can do is read your name. by now we have all heard that soda is not good for you. it turns out it might also be making us sad. sad soda. new research that suggests soda drinkers are more likely to be depressed. not really depressing. seems more stupid to me but you'll decide. (dog) larry,larry,larrryyy. why take exercise so seriously,when it can be fun? push-ups or sprints? what's wrong with fetch? or chase? let's do this larry! ooh, i got it, i got it! (narrator) the calorie-smart nutrition in beneful healthy weight... incles grains and real chicken, because a healthy dog is a playful dog. beneful
our paper money could soon have a bunch of scwilgs on it if jack lew get the gig. puts the united states signature on all the green backs. that's the current secretary tim geithner's john hancock. here is lu's signature. see that? from a recent white house memo. it's a bunch of scwilgs skillings. geithner had to change his signature from the one you can see here so that people could read his name on the currency. after all, if you get to sign all the money, the least you can do is read your...
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and today president obama is expected to nominate white house chief of staff jack lew as his pick to replace timothy geithner as treasury secretary. >> wall street doesn't love jack lew but will accept him. >> there is one bit of controversy. it is his signature. >> good morning to you. you know, if you look at any american currency you'll see it's signed by two people. the treasurer and so if he becomes treasury secretary. that's his signature. it will go on the money. is this a signature we want on the money? a call for lew to step it up and make it look less disney. wall street looking at jobless claims up to 371,000. anything below 400,000 is manageable. dow industrials up 38 points. nasdaq up 14. amazon about to announce a new feature. if you buy a music cd from amazon or purchased one in the past, the company will send you free music files of the cd as well so you can play it on your iphone on ipad or what not. you can easily and legally do this already. you take the cd put it in your computer and itunes will do it for you. it's a faster way for those people who still buy cds.
and today president obama is expected to nominate white house chief of staff jack lew as his pick to replace timothy geithner as treasury secretary. >> wall street doesn't love jack lew but will accept him. >> there is one bit of controversy. it is his signature. >> good morning to you. you know, if you look at any american currency you'll see it's signed by two people. the treasurer and so if he becomes treasury secretary. that's his signature. it will go on the money. is...
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that's jack lew's signature on the left and right. >> steve: how can you tell them apart? >> alisyn: you can't. >> eric: the scary part is if he would become secretary, he would be signing the dollar bills a lot of zeros there. a lot of debt. >> steve: it looks like a lot of zeros in his signature. that's how it would mock up if he is confirmed. >> eric: he needs six more zeros. >> steve: my wife said look at jack lew's signature that, is a good reason they need to keep cursive in the school. she told me that. this morning, did you realize that there are a number of states where they no longer teach cursive in the schools, since back in 2011, in the state of indiana, they just got rid of it. no more cursive because everybody is doing keyboarding and things like that. but unfortunately, for instance, there is now a move afoot in indiana to bring cursive back to the schools. because apparently kids simply can't read cursive. in fact, one teacher said -- told one of the newspapers in indiana that she had written some thank you cards to some of her students for the christmas g
that's jack lew's signature on the left and right. >> steve: how can you tell them apart? >> alisyn: you can't. >> eric: the scary part is if he would become secretary, he would be signing the dollar bills a lot of zeros there. a lot of debt. >> steve: it looks like a lot of zeros in his signature. that's how it would mock up if he is confirmed. >> eric: he needs six more zeros. >> steve: my wife said look at jack lew's signature that, is a good reason they...
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unclear if that's going to mean a seamless transition with the president's nominee jack lew since it seems unlikely at this point lew will be confirmed by the senate before geithner leaves. so maybe the deputy secretary will fill that gap. geithner, if he wants one, can have almost any finance job that he wants. he'll take at least six months to consider his option. they don't say whether or not he wants to go into finance. the question is what kind of job would be appropriate for geithner to take given that he was intimately involved in bank rescue operations over the past several years? and what kind of job could he take in the post-crisis world and still be eligible to come back into government if he wanted? fed chairman ben bernanke, he's expected to move on after his term expires in 2014, and geithner would clearly be someone the president would consider. according to sources, geithner wouldn't want the job but the president has been very successful in getting geithner to do things he hasn't wanted to, like stay on treasury for an extra year or two and geitner has been making ab
unclear if that's going to mean a seamless transition with the president's nominee jack lew since it seems unlikely at this point lew will be confirmed by the senate before geithner leaves. so maybe the deputy secretary will fill that gap. geithner, if he wants one, can have almost any finance job that he wants. he'll take at least six months to consider his option. they don't say whether or not he wants to go into finance. the question is what kind of job would be appropriate for geithner to...
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jack lew is not that man. we heard the announcement live on c-span, and it's available to watch on c-span.org. >> if you ask how many are self-identified libertarians, those who describe themselves as libertarian, depending which poll, could be 10%-15%. if you ask questions like, if you give people a battery of questions about different ideological things, like, do you believe in x or y? you track those to different ideologies, then depending on which poll, you get up to 30% of americans calling themselves libertarians. are you economically conservative but socially liberal, over half of americans say that's what they are. now, that said, just because people say these things, doesn't mean they really believe them. if you ask americans do you want smaller government, they say yes. if you want government to spend less money, they say yes. but if ask them to make cuts, they don't want to cut anything. it's not clear if they really believe in it. best on the data i have in writing the book, i say roughly somewhere
jack lew is not that man. we heard the announcement live on c-span, and it's available to watch on c-span.org. >> if you ask how many are self-identified libertarians, those who describe themselves as libertarian, depending which poll, could be 10%-15%. if you ask questions like, if you give people a battery of questions about different ideological things, like, do you believe in x or y? you track those to different ideologies, then depending on which poll, you get up to 30% of americans...
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so, jack lew is the guy who signs his name with what surely looks like a slinky. >>brian: front page "where are the women?" they take a picture and talk about the cabinet of the administration. all the women are being replaced by men. white men too on top of that. let me show you a picture in "the new york times." all we see is valerie jar rhett's leg -- valerie jarrett's leg. >>steve: on december 29 that is the pr-z meeting with ten guys and they're talking about the fiscal cliff. >>brian: could they back up a little. >>gretchen: this is a picture they released the day after, i believe. and you can see valerie jarrett front and center facing the president. then there are two other women who are in the photos. was it a reaction to that original picture? brian, you bring up a good point that there are no minorities -- there's one, i think, in that original picture. it is an interesting discussion because there was so much made in this last political campaign about the war on women from the obama administration and how the republicans were to blame for not including
so, jack lew is the guy who signs his name with what surely looks like a slinky. >>brian: front page "where are the women?" they take a picture and talk about the cabinet of the administration. all the women are being replaced by men. white men too on top of that. let me show you a picture in "the new york times." all we see is valerie jar rhett's leg -- valerie jarrett's leg. >>steve: on december 29 that is the pr-z meeting with ten guys and they're talking...
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president obama made two major cabinet announcements in chuck hagel and just yesterday jack lew and while not a cabinet position, the president nominated john brennan to head the cia. all three posts need to be confirmed when the senate gets back to work. and speaking of approval, the president will kick off his second term seven points more popular than the first-term average flying in the face of history, though it's still early. five of the seven u.s. presidents re-elected since world war ii have been less popular in the second terms. so can the president use early momentum to push the policy agenda? let's spin. guys, i have been saying for a while now i think that his second term he's going the see a lot more pushback from the friends on the left than his foes on the right. for one, he's been re-elected. i think the gop has generally resigned themselves to the fact that they're going to be four more years to obama and they have a little less incentive to hang him for every misstep he has but democrats are incentives to watch him more carefully. one, payment, you know, a number of grou
president obama made two major cabinet announcements in chuck hagel and just yesterday jack lew and while not a cabinet position, the president nominated john brennan to head the cia. all three posts need to be confirmed when the senate gets back to work. and speaking of approval, the president will kick off his second term seven points more popular than the first-term average flying in the face of history, though it's still early. five of the seven u.s. presidents re-elected since world war ii...
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. ♪ thank you, the signature of new treasury secretary jack lew which will soon appear on all money for looking like the hair of franklin from the "peanuts" cartoon. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] [ playing charlie brown theme ] ♪ thank you, reports this week of a major white house leak. [ laughter ] major leak from the white house. >> steve: what? did that smell bad? ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, $10 gift card, for giving me just enough money to have to spend even more money when i go to the store. [ laughter ] what am i going to buy with $10? [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: another gift card. >> jimmy: yeah. ♪ thank you, people that get tattoos. at one point it proved that you were a bad ass. now it just proves that you turned 18. [ laughter ] >> steve: so true. so true. >> jimmy: people used to be afraid of people with tattoos. >> steve: yeah, when you were a kid. >> jimmy: now your nanny has a tattoo. >> steve: she's got six of them. >> jimmy: yeah. ♪ thank you, scrabble letters, for teaching me that saying i love you is worth less than saying zucchini. [ laughter ] [ appla
. ♪ thank you, the signature of new treasury secretary jack lew which will soon appear on all money for looking like the hair of franklin from the "peanuts" cartoon. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] [ playing charlie brown theme ] ♪ thank you, reports this week of a major white house leak. [ laughter ] major leak from the white house. >> steve: what? did that smell bad? ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, $10 gift card, for giving me just enough money to have to spend even...
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we'll talk to you about if you're feelings of jack lew in a moment. on the deal that we did. you see everybody's taken the zeros off of what we owe and everybody's seen that now. i guess we're making $23,000 a year, we're spending $38,000. so we're adding $16,000 to our credit card bill every year. and we already owe $160,000 on our credit card bill. and the fiscal cliff deal cut $38 off of our expenses or something when you take everything off. is that -- >> actually worse than that. >> how can it be worse? >> actually our cliff bill was an absolute embarrassment to the united states of america. let me clarify. if we had gone over the cliff, it would have been an "f." and a total failure of our system. but when you analyze the bill, it was an "f" on spending. we actually increased spending. we didn't reduce 13e7bding. we increased spending. >> all the democrats tell me that there was already a trillion dollars of spending cuts that -- i didn't -- >> that was from august 2011. okay, but what i'm saying is, if you just look at this bill in isolation, it increased spending. it
we'll talk to you about if you're feelings of jack lew in a moment. on the deal that we did. you see everybody's taken the zeros off of what we owe and everybody's seen that now. i guess we're making $23,000 a year, we're spending $38,000. so we're adding $16,000 to our credit card bill every year. and we already owe $160,000 on our credit card bill. and the fiscal cliff deal cut $38 off of our expenses or something when you take everything off. is that -- >> actually worse than that....
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the nominee, what house chief of staff jack lew. if confirmed by the senate, he would replace tim geithner. some complain that he is too unyielding in past fiscal negotiations, specifically alabama senator jeff sessions. he says, "jack lew must never be treasury secretary." adding, "any loan disqualifies." senator sessions is not saying yet whether he will filibuster the nomination. president obama will make the announcement at 1:30 p.m. eastern time, and you can hear it live on c-span radio or watch on c-span. meanwhile, labor secretary bill the sully's is resigning, saying she returns -- labor secretary hilda solis is resigning. responding to the news, president obama called her a tireless champion for working families. the white house says that attorney general eric holder, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius, and -- will remain at their posts. a new rule on mortgages. the aim is to return -- for the first time, federal regulators are laying out rules to ensure mar words can afford to pay the cost of the mortgag
the nominee, what house chief of staff jack lew. if confirmed by the senate, he would replace tim geithner. some complain that he is too unyielding in past fiscal negotiations, specifically alabama senator jeff sessions. he says, "jack lew must never be treasury secretary." adding, "any loan disqualifies." senator sessions is not saying yet whether he will filibuster the nomination. president obama will make the announcement at 1:30 p.m. eastern time, and you can hear it...